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  • Christine Baes

    Better partnerships can help solve animal agriculture’s big issues

    Ontario Beef, May 2024: It’s been just under a year since Dr. Christine Baes became the new Chair of the University of Guelph’s Department of Animal Biosciences – and she’s focused on charting a new path that will help the department and the livestock industry be future-ready. 

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  • Research & innovation key to successful future for Canadian livestock industry, report says

    Ontario Beef, February 2024: A new report puts research, innovation and a comprehensive policy approach as core pillars underpinning the successful future of Canada’s livestock industry. Report co-author Al Mussell will be speaking about the report’s findings at the BFO annual meeting on February 22.

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  • Looking past the headlines at livestock, climate and sustainability

    Ontario Beef, December 2023: There’s a growing narrative that eliminating animal agriculture is the key solution to the world’s climate change problem – much to the frustration of the livestock industry that this ignores the critical role that farm animals play in global food protein security, regenerative agriculture, and carbon sequestration. 

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  • Hamburger

    Plant-based burgers not healthier than beef, new research shows

    Ontario Beef: February 2023: A plant-based burger might look like beef and taste like beef - but that doesn’t make it beef. According to new research from the University of Guelph, that’s an important distinction that has a dramatic impact on everything from how we digest plant-based protein alternatives to the type of bacteria growing in the human gut.

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  • Future of global food security depends on livestock

    Ontario Beef, October 2022: Given the many pressures facing the livestock industry today, it can sometimes be easy to wonder whether the future of food production in the world will include animals. Absolutely, says Dr. Vaughn Holder, Research Project Manager in Beef Nutrition at Alltech.

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  • A path forward for Ontario’s livestock innovation system

    Ontario Beef, August 2022: According to Livestock Research Innovation Corporation (LRIC) CEO Mike McMorris, Ontario has a very good livestock innovation system, but as with anything, there is always room for improvement and ways of doing things better.

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  • Reporting on what matters – the need for balance in the livestock sector

    Ontario Beef, May 2022: A statement many people in the agriculture sector have heard a lot in recent years is “you have to tell your story, or someone will tell it for you.”  When it comes to climate change, greenhouse gas emissions and the environment, the livestock story is definitely being told – but much as they might try, it’s not by the industry itself. 

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  • Two beef animals behind a fence looking at the camera

    New website will make it easier, faster to access research results

    Ontario Beef Farmer, Spring-Summer 2022: A new initiative will make it easier for the beef industry to get research results into the hands of producers and others in the industry who can use them.

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  • Beef at Guelph will make it easier, faster to access research results

    Ontario Beef, February 2022: A new initiative by the University of Guelph and supported by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) is designed to make it easier for the beef industry to get research results into the hands of producers and others in the industry who can use them.

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